Posts Tagged ‘ cracking ’

Overdue Book

I used to work in a library so I should know not to keep books longer than promised.  Sorry… here is the Phase I book. And below are the panels from our final presentation of the year with some explanations. Our thesis, based on the initial material experiments, focuses on the forces that shape urban [ READ MORE ]

battersea

This is a fun experiment we did at the end of last term. It was our first experiments with digital techniques. We use Rhino to model the power plant. We used Maya particle dynamics a couple of times. And even used some scripts in both programs, mostly to make the voronoi patterns. It was a [ READ MORE ]

…MAYHEM

This is a long post…. This was our final model for workshop 2. Its story is much more interesting than our final crit, which went similar to the previous one; not much direction, but good feedback. After doing a few more study models in resin Yusuke suggested we create a field of cracks. We were [ READ MORE ]

Workshop 2: Mid-Review . . .

So, here it comes the first crit of my new school . . . How do you think it will turn out? Well, It was Ok, not good, but not bad. It didn’t help that my tutor, Yusuke wasn’t there. It is true we had talked to people in Phase II and they mentioned that [ READ MORE ]

Workshop 2: Ice

After our initial foam experiments didn’t lead any where we began working with ice. Here we found that we could freeze the ice, crack it using warm water and refreeze and repeat the process. This we felt was an iterative system. In our next meeting with Yusuke he liked our approach and was interested in [ READ MORE ]

Workshop 2 Initial Ideas

Our initial ideas about iterative material systems and attractors dealt with “degenerative” systems, ie systems that breakdown in time. We had a couple of ideas: Foam broken down by acid or fire. Ice melting or cracking from temperature change. and a couple of others that never materialized. In any case we started with the one [ READ MORE ]

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This blog is part of my work with computational architecture. I studied at the AA DRL and have been working with various collaborators on projects around the world since finishing in February 2009.

I am interested in how parametric design can be used to simultaneously distribute and articulate space. I try to achieve this through the processes of architecture from conception to construction.

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